If you had a suspicion your modern car is spying on you, you’re probably right. Vehicles these days are connected to the Internet of Things, able to feed data back to the cloud in real time. Once it’s there, what happens next may not be something you explicitly agreed to. Now the tide is starting…

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers at digital rights unit The Citizen Lab say government spyware makers are abusing global advertising networks to target and hack devices by serving malicious online adverts. A new report published Thursday by the University of Toronto lab, which investigates surveillance and digital rights abuses, said an Israeli company called Discover-Tech...

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

"...there is no boundary anymore; the system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything."

350 federal web addresses, including the FBI tip line and a veterans crisis service, let network snoops see who visits.

Proton is hosting a public map showing more than 300,000 Flock surveillance devices across the United States, preserving access to a research project whose creator faces legal threats and intimidation. The map draws on an inventory obtained by cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael from Flock’s own systems. According to Proton, it includes more than 170,000 cameras …

The banned items — a wireless video transmitter and dashboard camera — are made with chips manufactured by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon, which markets its products as “designed for the surveillance market.”

Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around disclosure. According to The PHP Foundation, several organizations had agreed to a coordinated release detailing the critical flaws and mitigation actions, but cybersecurity firm Chainguard “unlaterally” broke this embargo. This prompted the PHP project...

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nmcli c delete YourConnectionName

OMGawd I will never forget this!!!!

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Why does it happen during local and provincial elections?

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An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said.

Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto, said it believed dozens of devices at the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera had been compromised by spyware delivered through ads run by Discover-Tech, which describes itself as a specialised digital advertising agency.

Nitter, the open-source, ad-free, tracker-free frontend that let people read public X posts without an account, is in trouble. The dev has just posted a new update on nitter.net.

What happened:

• On Aug 24, 2026, X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project’s repository. A second letter with the same demands and legal threats followed on Sept 8.

• Press reports say the letters cite the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act and the Lanham Act, and also went to other public instances, not just nitter.net.

• nitter.net went offline, and the GitHub repo was archived for a while.

• On Sept 7, the dev said the project would continue with legal representation in place. In the Oct 10 update he says that was based on assurances that “have since turned out to be untrue,” and apologizes for the misleading info.

Where things stand: Nitter currently has no legal counsel. The dev (zedeus) is asking for funding and legal help from lawyers, organizations, or anyone who can help. Donations go to legal costs first, and whatever isn’t needed goes to development of Nitter or its successor.

If you’re a lawyer, work at a digital-rights org, or know someone who is, contact info and donation links are on the page: https://nitter.net/
Seven years of a free, privacy-respecting project, and the response is lawyers. Signal boost if you can.

Michael from Signal Jam here. I just moved to Canada, and I'm excited to learn what you do to stay private here, and exploring new ways to double down.

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Electric vehicle maker BYD has removed any reference to "China" and "surveillance" from its Australian privacy policy just days after receiving questions from Four Corners.

The original policy gave the company almost unlimited powers to collect data on its Australian vehicle owners and broad discretion over how it could disclose it.

It said the data could be gathered "in connection with suspected illegal or improper activities" and that this could be done through "surveillance activities".

"This gives some highly concerning indications about the potential data practices of the company," said UNSW's Katharine Kemp, an expert in privacy law and how it relates to connected vehicles.

The policy named China as one of 16 countries where Australians' data could be sent.

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While all references to China have been removed, nothing stops it from transferring data overseas, including to China.

"Should we need to transfer your personal data to other countries … we will comply with applicable data protection laws regarding cross-border data transfers," the new policy says.

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BYD said Chinese authorities had no access to the data of Australians.

"We haven't and would not transfer any data of Australians to the Chinese authorities," it said.

This is despite China's national security laws obligating companies to co-operate with authorities if requested.

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Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.

you are not told when a report is filed.

you find out when the police arrive.